Baby was born in Liverpool at 8.08am on the eighth day of the eighth month weighing 8lbs after her mum endured eight hours of labour. Mel Byrne, 31, gave birth to Lulu with help from Chinese-born midwife Bea Fung, who helped deliver eight babies that day, reports the Daily Mirror.
Mrs Fung said: "In Chinese culture the number eight is considered very lucky. I was watching the clock as the birth approached and was counting the minutes and she arrived at just the right time. "Straight away I told Mel and Pete their daughter was very lucky indeed."
Mrs Fung, who has been at Liverpool Women's Hospital for 33 years, added: "The number of eights linked to Lulu is incredible. I consider myself very lucky to have been there." The couple, from Woolton, Liverpool, already have a two-year-old daughter, Maisy.
Photographer Peter, 30, said: "Bea was very excited and kept telling us how lucky we were and how lucky Lulu is. "I think I will be letting Lulu choose the lottery numbers as soon as she is old enough."
An oil stain on a garage floor that vaguely resembles the face of Jesus has fetched more than £750 in an online auction.
Deb Serio found the image on her garage floor in Forest, Virginia, and sold it on eBay for $1,525.69, reports the Daily Telegraph.
Ms Serio, a high school teacher, said she was surprised anyone wanted to buy the oily slab of concrete. "I really never thought I'd get any (money), to be honest," she said.
She received hundreds of messages from around the world from people interested in the "smudge of Christ". The family has now hired a contractor to remove the section of concrete.
The slab will then be delivered to the winner of the online auction, who is identified only as 'islandoffthecoast'. An active Lutheran, Ms Serio considers the smudge a slightly odd occurrence, rather than a divine sign or miracle.
"There are some people who need this kind of thing to sort of start them on their faith journey. I don't," she said. "That's why I don't mind parting with it."
Chinese man has drifted more than 1,500 miles down the country's longest river in a tyre inner-tube.
Cheng Yanhua, 41, took 43 days to finish the journey along the Yangtze river from his home town of Jinzhou city to Shanghai. He undertook the journey because he wanted to promote the Olympic spirit, reports the Shanghai Evening Post.
Cheng said: “I put a basin in the tire for my feet, while sitting on a board on top of the tire. And I had two small bamboo paddles. That was all. “All day long I drifted on the current and with the wind. The two paddles were to control direction and speed.”
But at his last stop, less than an hour’s journey to his final destination, the Oriental Pearl TV Tower, Cheng was spotted by Shanghai water patrol, who forced him to land, fearing he would disturb normal water traffic.
However, the patrol sent him to the tower on a coastguard cutter to complete his journey.
A university lecturer yesterday broke the world record for time spent on a rollercoaster - and is still going strong.
At midnight yesterday, Richard Rodriguez, 48, beat the previous holder by clocking up nine days and 12 hours, reports the Daily Record.
The American said: "I feel I can do it for another week. I want to set a record that can never be beaten. "As a kid, I was frightened of rollercoasters but I have learned to love them."
Richard has been riding Europe's tallest rollercoaster - the 60mph Big One at Blackpool Pleasure Beach.
In that time, the Chicago-based record-breaker has travelled 4126 miles - more than the 3950-mile return trip to his home city - during 16 rides each hour.
Richard has eaten, drunk and slept on the ride, only swapping to the Big Dipper at night for safety reasons.
His record has been watched by Guinness Book Of Records officials, who allow him five minutes an hour for a comfort break. Richard said: "I have had everything - thunder and lightning and now sun. My only problem has been wind burn."
German rival Frank Rossler had already pulled out of the head-to-head challenge, as his effort on the Boomerang ride in Bavaria failed due to dehydration.
Women could be having boob jobs in their lunch breaks as early as next year, according to a scientific journal.
A fast-track breast enlargement process is to be rolled out by a Californian biotech company and could be introduced across Europe by next year, the Chemistry and Industry magazine says. The procedure, called Celution, takes just over an hour and involves injecting a "super-charged'' fat mixture into breast tissue.
Fat is taken from a patient's buttocks or stomach using minor liposuction under local anaesthetic.
Lunch break boob jobs ... breast augmentations could soon be a whole lot quicker thanks to a new procedure
The useful stem cells are separated out and an hour later a dose of stem and regenerative cells is packaged into a cartridge ready for injection. It costs a few thousand dollars and the breasts enlarge over about six months, according to the program's creator Cytori Therapeutics.
Cytori Therapeutics head of research and development Kai Pinkernel said the company's initial focus will be on reconstructive surgery in breast cancer patients. "The super-charged fat graft survives really well and fills in the volume defect left by partial mastectomy,'' Pinkernel said.
It is still unclear how the defects are repaired and clinical trials are currently under way. The process has been approved in Germany, which means it is legal across the EU, the Chemistry and Industry magazine reported.
Clinicians will apparently have to wait until the trials end early in 2008 before they can recommend the procedure to patients.
A 78-year-old tramp who can tell the time without a watch has become an internet star.
Gordon Roberts, who lives in Bournemouth, has had a site dedicated to him on Facebook, reports the Sun. And it already has more than 4,500 members after just a few weeks.
Gordon was already well known in Bournemouth for his extraordinary ability to know the time within two minutes without wearing a watch. Local man Chris Kimber, 24, decided to set up an appreciation group on networking site Facebook.
But people from all over the UK began signing up - and users from Australia, America and South Africa are now joining the fun. Creator Chris, a Bournemouth University student, said: "I thought it'd be fun to set up a group around Gordon, but I did not expect it to take off."
Fans have even arranged a party for members - who must dress like their hero - in Poole on July 29. When asked about his fame, Gordon said: "I heard about it, but I don't know much about it."
There are many movie spaceships but which one is the best in the universe? Some rules formed this list: these are spaceships from movies (TV spaceships like Battlestar Galactica or Draconian Marauder from Buck Rogers don’t count) and real space crafts. Flying cars and rockets don’t count. It turns out that we have lot of great spaceships, so I apologize in advance to Borg Cube, Imperial Star Destroyer, X-Wing Fighter, many other Star Trek and Star Wars low grade ships and all other ships that we know of.
10. The Thunder Road (Explorers) – Advantage: Invisible. Source of power is 9V battery size generator. No Inertia. Damage resistant; can pass through ground with no problem at all. Flaws: Named after Bruce Springsteen song and only for kids.
9. Gunstar (The Last Starfighter) – If you win enough points in a video game, you might be recruited to fly Gunstar and defend Frontier from Xur and Ko-Dan fleet! Weapons are standard but with a little bonus: the "Death Blossom", which automatically aims at any ship within range of weapons and destroys it. Why they didn’t install it as a regular system remains a mystery.
8. Mothership (Independence Day) – Despite of its absurd vulnerability for human made computer viruses, this bad boy possesses one of the most impressive arsenal of weapon in movie history. And it’s huge: quarter of a Moon. Inside, it carries 30 smaller ships, each one is big as Manhattan and possesses incredible beam weapon for destruction of a city. It is also resistant to all known weapons except Randy Quaid.
7. Klingon Bird of Prey (Star Trek) – “Bird of Prey” never fit in alongside Federation starships, but their wing like shape gives them lethal design in movie space technology Hall of Fame. Put some leather seats in it and you’ll have a Ferrari among spaceships.
6. Discovery One (2001: A Space Odyssey) – This massive ship, shaped like a pencil, is designed for long term explorations. The Jupiter spacecraft Discovery One carries three one-man EVA pods, centrifuge that creates artificial gravity, and, well, one buggy computer system – HAL 9000. Despite technical problems, HAL’s red eye is hypnotically invincible.
5. Apollo 13 (Apollo 13) – One real spaceship on this list and without doubt, most heroic ship of them all. It flew only once, reached the Moon and barely returned to Earth in on piece… and they were welcomed by Kathleen Quinlan. Ha.
4. Heart of Gold (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) – If we disregard it’s weird ball like design (inspired by a teapot), Incredible Endless Ride in this ship performs a very interesting stunt trick: Traveling through every point of Universe in a single moment. Don’t bang your head against wall, instead enjoy in a personal ship computer and robotized things.
3. Nostromo (Alien) – Nostromo is not your regular space freighter, because it carries with it a huge ore excavator. Even though it has no weapons, when it receives a command for auto destruction (rather complex one), it completes it with a style. It was underestimated ship, but it could land on a planet and pick up certain alien life forms… which turned out to be not such a good idea.
2. U.S.S. Enterprise (various versions) (Star Trek) – Even though it is originated from a series, Enterprise truly expressed itself in a movie serial. Earlier ships stand out with their photon torpedoes and pre-selection for auto destruction, but this was the only ship that could literally go back and forth through time. Holodeck? Cute. And those transporters had a killing dose in them. Later versions of a ship had ability of splitting in two parts.
1. Millennium Falcon (Star Wars) – It is probably not that big surprise to see Falcon on top of this list, but really, who would thought that a light freighter of quarrelsome smuggler, would be that important in saving of a Galaxy. Armed with 2 Quad laser cannons, 1 Mounted Anti-Infantry Swivel Laser Cannon, Dymek Concussion Missiles, Tractor Beam Projector, hyperdrive, and space for eight passengers, Millennium Falcon easily earned its first place. If you can find other ship that can made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs, please let us know.
